The article below was published in the daily newspaper Est-Matin, France, August 24, 1947.
Tuesday night, some people realized strange phenomena were going on. At 9 p.m., their attention was drawn to their window by a strange noise and, looking up at the sky where the first stars appeared, they noticed in amazement a kind of glowing ball that was moving at high speed towards the west before disappearing. And they wondered if they were privileged to witness the passage of those famous "flying saucers" much talked about in recent weeks?